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PROHIBITION PROPOSED FOR FINGLAND.
BILL REJECTED BY OVERWHELMING MAJORITY,
traffic, but to its overthrow. In 1919 iz
spent in England and 0289.000.000
WILN
year 1920 the 6rst year of Peshibition, the arrenta fuelrunkenness amounted to 142,000, a reduction of a per cent. On "the 1918" | figures; in 1 21 they rose to 19 young and last year to 250000, or 4 per cent, share the Aigare for 1918
Mr. C. Roberts (Isl. L) agreed with neither the movers of the bill or with the opponents.
It was only after the country had gone through a stage of preparation that red pro gras coal be nule Those who desirvi reform must play the long game and create the public opinion which winid support að-
Tance.
ter
LESSONS FROM AMERICA.
In the House of Commons on April 20th, Mr. Serymgeour (Ind., Dundee) moved the second realing of the Liquor. Traffje Prohibition Bill, which seeks to prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcoholic liquors for beverage purposes. This was not a question nƐ so many houses. It was a question of drink. It was 'ques- tion whether or not drink was an alenhofie poison scientifically lemonstrated by lend-
Mr. Snell (Lab-Suc.), speaking from ex- ing authorities to deteriorate the hunt, perience of two recent visits of there months" system even if taken in moderate quanti duration to America, wail apart from ties if that were so there was no reason Chicago, New York, and other cities ther ed answer to the demand fog prohibi- tion. Surely the judgment of natrintism rast areas completely satishia with prohibition. It broke down in congested and commoners was that the power areas, but it got better and better every of the law should directeyl not to day. If the defence and entrenchment of the liquor an enduring success it would result in a bt-
experiment should
print to bo
standard of tenth and eittention and in the United Kingdom £38000.000 was greater industrini eliciency: and the moment sent in drink, of which
One-sixth of the profit-making classes of Englanti wers that sum would built 165.000 houses at anced that they could get more profit out
of the sober man than they could fit cost of £30 each and anive the housing they would not let any question af personal problem. The wait of prohibition in the United States was a mittantial reduction
arty stant in the way. It might be before that prohibition would be imposed in convictions for drunkenness, the of les
upon the country by the capitalist class. for inebriates. four fail increase Ministerial lanchier in employment, and a remarkable decrease in statistics pertaining to disease.
Sir Goy flaunt (L.) disagreed with every Ho
in Mr. thing maintained that the dught to be no
Both taxation
professionally privately he had been to America a and laughter.) In the United States the great deal. He admitted that the women of business forex had
in and America would still vote for prohibition, helped forward the concentrated demand but that of the ebares and perance exlies ir, bet because they would not go back to was not because they were against which were lictating to the political forces the old four corner salon
The whole An Hon. Member: They are sorry for it conversation in America was liquor, and it could be got anywhere. In America there rutians bell america would get mak
muney out of
but he would in a very short time be 非
ROW,
on aleontier (Flear, heat, and (Hear a speech except his
it.
Mr. Servmasour said they
were not worry for its had given personal An Experitus professor of testimony to the vast transformation that I already taken place in every phase of life, and was extending its influence over the whole of the United States.
were all sorts of "bition, it and
happy and
sperous country. (Cheers and laughter)
· Major Paget (C.) said the aunt of ember of this House, held the some views as Mr. Scryingeour. She was a very heavy imaginary rats up the curtains. (Laughter.) tea drinker, and was one day found chasing It was pxible to get delirium from drinking tea as from drinking alcohol. Laughter and cries of No.") Why should Беоре of not tea la brought within the biliousness, bad temper, and excitement the bill-and cfice, too, for it engendero
7 Since the bill included all taxed drinks, it would take in mineral waters, which was
I should never have been in this House at the hoy. member aid in conclusion, had it not been for this question. He whe I will not leave you nor forsake ught me her in a most mar- vellous fashion.
I am here against the forces of the Press and party organise tion. A surging, moving influence seized me, God himself took posesion of me. I
have: seen the realities of life, and have to rejoice in being brought up in a home where there was no such temptation.
have mixed with the convicts from good thing, for they engenderel gas, Portland
righteousness and intolerance. He my father's house,
and would suggest an realised the
Aimerülment-that in- trageriies. I have been stead of applying to the United Kingdom. brought here by the clearly expresseel the bill call of God Himself, to serve the men who
"should" apply to Dundee and Glasgow. have gone down, and to help in sustaining
Mr. T. Johnston (Lat. Soc.) stated that not simply the prestige of the country but he would vote for the second fading of the to advance its interests, and to advance the bill, but he did not agree with its terms, kingdom of Christ to which every one of us Lelong
nt
the
The hon. member had spoken with great foryour, and the concluding portion of his speech was listened to in absolute silence. As he resume his sent he was cheered from all quarters of the House, and in the public gallery there was a good deal of Dr. Salter (Lab. Soc.). who motion, said that while he favoures principle he considered some of the adopted by the bill were bar. Terrilie penalties had recently been imposed on persons for trucking in, and for lying in possession of, dargemus drugs. Why til the House deliberately take away from certain insideals the right to
the
uratify their uppatities? The one reason
WILS that these drugs had an injarinus effect on the individual, and through the individu
upon society: The Fame
me thing applied te the drug alcohol. It was the view of scientific people that for pileptic and neurotic persons there, coul! be no temper ance in uicohol. for the smallest dose would upset. their wental bulance. Few people could say that they had not got buried in their Kystems neuropathic clement Ho could call to mind three or four ex-members of, thu
that House who had fallen victims to the drug of alcohol after they had reached posi tions of responsibility. Will and ridiculous statements were being made about the
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BEJECTION MOVED.
Colonel Sir A. Holbrook (C.), în moving the rejection of the bill, said that for inany years England had been getting more sober. In any industrial or agricultural centre the sight of a drunken man was a rarity. Armistice right he went through all the main thoroughfares of Loa lon,
and he saw only one drunken tan
On
An hon. Member: "Were you blind" Sir A. Holbrook said he was certainly not blind: he was very much on the alert (Laughter.) Temperance could be promoted in much better ways than by trying to destroy the freedom of the people. If people were educated in labits of self control and self-discipline, all desire for extravagance in alcohol disappeared. He thought the medical faculty if appealed
to would
that far more men died from over-
eating than from drinking. (Hear,
no good
It.
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patting les own
on the statute book which way from the start to be fațile. Prohibition in America had
produced more corruption than any other law over introduced in that country. (Hear, hear.) He would not follow previous speakers too far in their scriptural quotations, but Would merely direct the attention of the House to the incident at Cans, when our Saviour turned water into wine, and to the exhortation of King David, who, in the Peaims, referred to wine which kladdens the heart of man." aed to water with which asses quench their thirst. (Hear, hear and laughter.) Could they find any scriptural authority for
ing
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Viscount Curzon (C.), in second- rejection, said the measure would lead to the manufacture of criminsia on a large scale. People could not be legislated into temperance. If Prohibition was to come it would be by gradual stages. Ho i been supplied by a temperance society with statistics relating to arrests for drankbesy in twin cities in the United States. In 1918 in York there were 7,099 arrests, and Chicago there were 43,949. In 1920, when Prohibi- tion was put in force, the figures were 6,936 and 12,000 respectively. In 1022 the figurea had risen to 8,573 and 63,081. That was under Prohibition. The figures for the whole twenty six towns showed that in the
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